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Hopkins County...
Hopkins
County, the forty-ninth in order of formation,
is located in western Kentucky. It has an area
of 552 square miles. The county was created on
May 1, 1807 from a portion of Henderson County and was
named for Gen. Samuel Hopkins, a Revolutionary
War veteran and early settler of the region. The
county seat is Madisonville.

Some of the early settlers were veterans of the
Revolutionary War who received land grants from
Virginia in the area southwest of the Green
River. Among these was Frederick Wilhelm, Baron
Von Steuben, the Prussian general who had
instructed the Revolutionary army at Valley
Forge in the winter of 1776-77. According to
tradition, the baron was wounded during an
Indian attack while on his first visit and
subsequently quit-claimed his property. On his
grant of several thousand acres in the northwest
part of the county, a salt spring came to be
known as Steuben's Lick. By the 1880s, the
community there was called Manitou.

On January 3, 1829, Ashbyburg in the
northeastern part of the county was
incorporated. Located on the Green River, it
thrived as a steamboat landing during the
nineteenth century. Other antebellum communities
included Nebo, northwest of Madisonville, and
Charleston, named after "Free Charles," a black
freedman who operated a tavern in the southwest
part of the county. *Above information from:
http://www.mykentuckygenealogy.com/ky_county/ho.htm

Moore-Hammack Bed & Breakfast The Innkeepers, Joe and Shirley Thomas, purchased this
magnificent 1892 Victorian home from J. B. Moore in 2000. Up
until her death, J. B.'s wife had lived in this wonderful old home
from the time her father, Dr. Wm. M. Hammack, purchased the
house in 1916.

Western Kentucky Journal
Subscribers to Brenda Joyce Jerome's Western Kentucky
Journal are aware that the final issue of her quarterly was
the October 2007 issue. Brenda just can't get away from
researching and sharing though, so she has established a blog
where she can post western Kentucky info several times a week.
Click here to visit the blog. Click here for an automatic Hopkins
County search.

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NOTICE:
Should anything unexpected happen to me and I am no longer able to fulfill my obligations as Coordinator of Hopkins County KyGenWeb, I want it known that all contributions to this website are to become the responsibility of the KyGenWeb Project, as part of the USGenWeb Project, to do with as the KYGenWeb
State Coordinator feels appropriate.